Queen Elizabeth - Volume 95: April 1574

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, 1547-80. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1856.

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'Queen Elizabeth - Volume 95: April 1574', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, 1547-80, (London, 1856) pp. 476-477. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/1547-80/pp476-477 [accessed 19 April 2024]

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April 1574

April 3.
Greenwich.
Fr. Walsyngham to Lord Adm. Lincoln. Had immediately moved Her Majesty as to the benefice of Burton, but it had been disposed of. Advertisements of news from France and Spain. [See Vol. xlv., p. 29.]
April 3. Fr. Walsyngham to Sir Walter Mildmay. Has shown his certificate to the Earl of Leicester, relative to the confirmation of the charters of the City of Chester. [See ib., p. 29.]
April 3.
London.
72. Fr. Walsyngham, Sir Walter Mildmay, and others, to the Council. Their proceedings in the examination and settlement of a controversy between the officers of the County Palatine and the corporation of Chester. Examination of the city charter. Inclosing,
72. i. Certificate by the above of the order set down by them in the controversy between the Queen's Officers of the Exchequer of the Principality of Chester and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Chester.
April 3? 73. Note of certain special points to be touched upon in the letter from the Council to the City of Chester on the conduct of Ric. Dutton, their Mayor, founded on a misconception of a clause of præterea in their late renewed Charter. [Ric. Dutton, Mayor of Chester, was in London in attendance on the Council in March, 1574. Co. Reg.]
April 4.
Greenwich.
74–77. Bonds of Thomas Stolyon, John Frenche, Christopher Darell, and Anthony Morley, not to found or sell ordnance without licence from the Queen.
April 4. 78. Note of business propounded in Council by Mr. Walsyngham, with orders thereon. Not convenient to have any plays, for fear of the plague.
April 4. 79. Names of owners and founders of iron ordnance, and of the places where the furnaces are situated.
April 5. 80. Note of business in Council. Principally relating to the affairs of Ireland.
April 20. 81. Estimate of the charges for the victualling of twenty-four of the Queen's ships, by Edward Baeshe.
April 25. 82. Richard Coortesse, Bishop of Chichester, to Lord Burghley. Certifies him of the prices of grain. Combination to rob the Frenchmen that make glass. Complains of pirates on the coast of Sussex.
April. 83. Lord Burghley's notes of public business and private affairs. Feb.—Apr. 1574.